Itzhak Stern

Itzhak Stern (25 January 1901-1969) was an Austrian Jewish accountant who worked for German industrialist Oskar Schindler. Stern was responsible for typing the names of several Jews who were to be employed in Schindler's factory, saving them from death during the Holocaust.

Biography
Itzhak Stern was born on 25 January 1901 in Austria to a Jewish family, and he worked as an accountant for an enamelware factory in Krakow, Poland before World War II. On 18 November 1939, German industrialist Oskar Schindler met Stern at the Judenrat building, as he was in need of a man with connections if he was to get funding for opening a new enamelware factory. Stern advised Schindler to lease an existing enamelware factory to give him more freedom from the Nazi Party, and he also convinced him to use Jews as slave labor, allowing for many Jews to be saved from death, as well as enabling Schindler to keep all of the money that he made. Stern was known for bringing out the moral side of Schindler, and he was one of the masterminds of Schindler's plan to save Jews from murder. Stern worked for Schindler even after he moved to Czechoslovakia to open another factory, and he moved to Israel after the war. Stern died in 1969 at the age of 68.